Occupy has to understand that the financial community is not monolithic. For every senior Chase or Goldman exec, there are thousands of non-mega-bankers willing to work with communities.
The Texas Ratio is often used to measure the riskiness of a bank and its likelihood of failure. But recently, it has lost its distinctiveness as being uniquely Texan.
Frontline employees and branch managers I've spoken to seem genuinely surprised and sometimes downright emotional to hear someone defending who they are and what they do.
Twenty years ago I engineered the sale of Security Pacific Bank, at the time the nation's fifth largest bank, to Bank of America. What has gone wrong since then?
If you live in one of the states that has an early presidential primary or caucus you need to be present at the town hall meetings and vocalize how the small banks are being hog tied by regulations.
